NoneOfUrBusiness

Wall street and crew are kingmakers, but they’re not kings. Their support matters a lot when you’re trying tp gain power, but after that nothing stops Mad King Trump from simply ignoring them.

Nice to see Spaniards still carrying the legacy of Al Andalus (“Abril” is the Arabized version of April).

More than that Japanese people have a completely different sense of humor from the stuff you usually see in the West. Even a fluent but non-native speaker will have a lot of their jokes fall flat simply because the Japanese and Western conceptions of a joke are very different. In what way? I have no idea, still trying to figure it out. I don’t know if that gap is that big in other cultures, but definitely best to just not.

Okay where do you even see Japanese posts?

Oh, I see; you’re a dyed in the wool “down with capitalism” lefty. In this part of history it’ll be necessary to tolerate the presence of normies—people who want to stop the backsliding of democracy but don’t really understand or care about the down with capitalism stuff. Those people can then be radicalized into full fledged lefties, but at least at present it’s important to accept their aims not being as ambitious as yours, even though as you said they’re missing the forest for the trees. They with proper education can and do stop going after individual trees and start burning the whole forest, but you have to be patient (or not, you do you). That aside the holier than thou attitude I’m talking about is mostly the bragging. That’s probably not what it feels to you, but to an external observer you definitely sound like you’re bragging about the fascist bricks you got hit with, so… uh… yeah.

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Kind of but not really relevant: As someone from an authoritarian state where you don’t really get to protest, I’d always wondered just how the whole protesting thing is supposed to work. Like you go out, hold some signs and chant some slogans and then politicians just listen to you??? Is that how democracy works??? In the last few years as I grew to understand how all that stuff works I learned the answer to that question, but I think many Westerners and Americans specifically really need to start thinking once about how what they’re doing is supposed to lead to results.

I just want to add that they saw all that and said “just looks like protesting” as if personally helping organize action against the coal industry using grassroots techniques to some small success is “just protesting,” or raising money for disabled people in community “not much apart from protesting.”

To be fair to them too, they were specifically asking what you did to resist Trump and co. As to everything else they said:

I do hope, that you continue to do as much as you’ve already done and I’m thankful for every single thing you do.

I get that you’re angry—hell, I’m angry and I’ve never been to the United States—but it seems you’re responding to something other than what the other person actually said. Also getting Americans to get off their asses is one thing, but you do have a bit of a holier than thou attitude you should probably work on if you want to be successful at getting them off their asses. If you don’t want to succeed at it then you do you I guess; like I said, you and everyone else who has been fighting this fight since the beginning have the right to be angry.

I can’t see much apart from protesting.

I mean to quote them:

A recent diagnosis of Graves Disease has put me on my arse for a while

They’ve got their excuse.

that you start to inspire others to follow in your footsteps instead of making them feel bad for not doing enough.

To be fair those are two sides of the same coin. If you can’t get people to think “I’m not doing enough and that’s a problem” you’ll never get them to get off their asses. This is particularly relevant in America because Americans have forgotten what it means to actually resist their government.

Wow, Africa’s Fediverse game is weak.

I’m also surprised about China, not for any other reason than their track record on pollution hasn’t been great.

That’s because they’re not deinstitutionalizing like Europe, and in fact their industry is still growing. A lot of European advances in reducing pollution came because they simply exported it elsewhere.

I mean you definitely hear more about it. And by the way didn’t they just recently get permission to use Western weapons to attack Russian territory? I’d say that’s escalating (but not an escalation of the conflict as a whole as you pointed out).

It will if the West stops holding back on arming Ukraine. The weakness of Western leaders in the early part of the war (and until now) is what got Ukraine into this situation.

I mean the price part is already built in. A lot of the “aid” Ukraine is getting is lend lease style stuff that they’ll be paying through the nose for later IIRC.

That only applies when you’re not Asian, so by that logic Russia will lose any war it gets into with its Asian neighbors.

Okay you have to be a certain kind of petty to go to @Ukraine just to say this.

No sane Middle Eastern language would use a true alphabet, so probably an abjad.

I mean it is literally a desert (and the nile basin doesn’t appear in the map).